Giants Stuff

The Giants seeem to have moved their focus from free agency to the NFL Draft, which makes a lot of sense, since they have little cap room, and a 12 picks. And the truth is, for the Giants and, really every team. the draft is far more important than free agency.  Without the 2003, 2004, 2005 drafts, where the Giants collected Osi, Diehl, Eli, Snee, Gibril, Webster, Tuck and Jacobs, the Giants would only have 2 Lombardi's. The 2007 draft was vaunted at the time, but really only Bradshaw was a big contributor.  Likewise, without the `81 -`90 drafts, the Giants wouldn't have won their first two. 2007 was the last draft that Reese ran, before shifting his total focus to GMing. Between 2008 and 2017, under Mark Ross, the Giants just didn't pick enough Giants. Sure, JPP, Linval, and OBJ were great picks, with JPP and Linval contributing to another superbowl win in year 2, but there were very few other special picks. Hakeem Nicks was great for awhile but was destroyed by injuries, like Kenny Phillips, Steve Smith, Mario Manningham, Terrell Thomas, Justin Pugh, Weston Richburg and Landon Collins. Others were just turned out to be horrible picks.

Now, whether or not you are mad or distrustful of the latest FO, they had a hell of a first draft, last year, including Saquon, Hernandez, Carter (4 sacks), BJ Hill (5.5 sacks), plus Kyle Lauletta and RJ McIntosh.  They did that with 6 picks, and this year they have 12, which is the highest number of picks they've had in since the Draft shrunk to 7 rounds. They had 11 picks in 2003, but their first picks was #25 and their second pick, Osi, was #56.  So not only do they have an extra pick this time, but they start 19 slots higher and have 2 picks before 25, and 3 or 4 before 56.

So they could really clean up next month. And it feels like they're counting on doing just that since they gave out a bunch of 1 year deals in FA, and the only guys who got more are mentor types. Let's hope they're plan is solid and it starts with crushing another draft.